Zinedine Soualem

Zinedine Soualem

Born: April 17, 1957
in Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Zinedine Soualem (born 17 April 1957) is a French actor. He has appeared in at least five films directed by Cédric Klapisch. Of Algerian origins, he was married to actress Hiam Abbass. They have two daughters, Lina and Mouna.

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L'enfant du paradis
Title: L'enfant du paradis
Character: Sami
Released: December 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Everything seems to be smiling again at Yazid, an actor with a sulphurous past. He is trying to regain custody of his son and find a stable family life. But despite his efforts, he is overtaken by his old demons...
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You Promised Me the Sea
Title: You Promised Me the Sea
Character: Mahmoud
Released: October 4, 2023
Type: Movie
Rennes, nowadays. Saïd still lives with his parents. He is having a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to face his family, he agrees to an arranged marriage with Hadjira. After an unhappy love affair and a few run-ins with the law, she too has resigned herself to obeying her mother. Trapped by their families, Saïd and Hadjira join forces in spite of themselves, to find their own freedom.
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Title: Irresistible
Character: Amine Mansouri
Released: September 20, 2023
Type: TV
Adèle and Arthur fall in love, but a mysterious condition threatens their new relationship.
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La Grande Ourse
Title: La Grande Ourse
Character: Charles
Released: August 26, 2023
Type: Movie
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Over The Cracks
Title: Over The Cracks
Character: Docteur Jiveau
Released: July 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Odile is getting ready to celebrate her birthday. As her kids and grandkids are on their way to visit her, Jean, her husband, unexpectedly passes away. Unable to cope with reality, she hides him under the bed.
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Umami
Title: Umami
Character: Mohamad
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
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Divertimento
Title: Divertimento
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
’95–’96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its diversity and composition. Helped by her twin sister Fettouma, a cellist, and while she was about to conduct her very first concert, she created the Divertimento orchestra. The latter still exists and, at 44 years old, Zahia is now a conductor recognized worldwide.
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Thank god we have each other
Title: Thank god we have each other
Character: Colinet
Released: December 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Vincent is 13 years old and has a boundless admiration for his father. His father is unemployed and is mainly involved in football, pretending to become a professional trainer soon, and does not take care of his family. Vincent's mother manages everything, until one day, at the end of her tether, she attempts suicide.
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You Resemble Me
Title: You Resemble Me
Character: Army Officer
Released: November 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.
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Citoyen d'honneur
Title: Citoyen d'honneur
Character: Hamid Mezouar
Released: September 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Samir Amin is a fulfilled writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, who lives in Paris, far from his native country, Algeria.He systematically refuses all the invitations made to him. Until the day when he decides to accept to be made "Honorary Citizen" of Sidi Mimoun, the small town where he was born.But should he again meet with the inhabitants of this city, who year after year became the heroes of his various novels?
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Title: Vise le cœur
Character: Benard
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Off the Hook
Character: Philippe
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: TV
Realizing they both have a toxic relationship to the Internet, roommates Léa and Manon decide to do the unthinkable: abandon all devices for 30 days.
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Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Title: Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Character: The mime
Released: June 15, 2022
Type: Movie
This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.
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Rise
Title: Rise
Character: L'administrateur
Released: March 30, 2022
Type: Movie
Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.
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Title: Une si longue nuit
Character: Radouane Kacem
Released: January 20, 2022
Type: TV
Sami, a young student, is accused of murdering a woman he met at a party. Isabelle, a whimsical lawyer, will agree to defend him... French adaptation of Criminal Justice and The Night Of.
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Their Algeria
Title: Their Algeria
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
After 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.
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Title: Exterminate All the Brutes
Released: April 7, 2021
Type: TV
Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
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C'était quand la dernière fois ?
Title: C'était quand la dernière fois ?
Released: October 23, 2019
Type: Movie
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Someone, Somewhere
Title: Someone, Somewhere
Character: Pharmacien
Released: September 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.
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Marry Me, Dude
Title: Marry Me, Dude
Character: Père Yacine
Released: October 25, 2017
Type: Movie
Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...
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Everyone's Life
Title: Everyone's Life
Character: Zinedine
Released: March 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.
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J'ai tué ma femme
Title: J'ai tué ma femme
Character: Le garagiste
Released: February 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying. While looking for a car repairer on a small industrial estate, they come across some people who are even more troubled than they are. The world seems about to erupt.
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Heaven Will Wait
Title: Heaven Will Wait
Character: Samir Bouzaria
Released: September 8, 2016
Type: Movie
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
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Two Birds, One Stone
Title: Two Birds, One Stone
Character: Lyess
Released: April 20, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Call My Agent!
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: TV
At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis.
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I'm All Yours
Title: I'm All Yours
Character: Omar - le patron du Cash'Halal
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!
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Title: Chefs
Character: Karim
Released: February 11, 2015
Type: TV
Every year Le Chef (English: The Chef), owner of the restaurant Le Paris, and a figure in French cuisine incorporates a young offender on probation into his team. Romain, just released from prison, arrives in this new world where gastronomy and excellence mix. After a difficult integration, he shows a real talent for cooking and climbs the ranks.
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Title: Confessions d'Histoire
Character: Salâh ad-Dîn
Released: February 6, 2015
Type: TV
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The Lies of the Victors
Title: The Lies of the Victors
Character: Dan
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?
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Murder in Pacot
Title: Murder in Pacot
Character: Leonetti
Released: September 5, 2014
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.
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Patchwork Family
Title: Patchwork Family
Character: Patrick Fellous
Released: July 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down.
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Chinese Puzzle
Title: Chinese Puzzle
Character: M. Boubaker
Released: December 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
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Max
Title: Max
Character: Mario
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.
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Mood Indigo
Title: Mood Indigo
Character: Le vieil homme de l'usine d'armement
Released: January 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
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Pirate TV
Title: Pirate TV
Character: Jimmy
Released: December 10, 2012
Type: Movie
It all began when camcorders replaced cameras. Making TV programs then became within everyone's reach. Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis, and the others didn't only want to create their own television channel, they above all wanted to make a revolution. Thus Télé Gaucho was born, as anarchic and provocative as the main channels were conformist and reactionary. Five years of mayhem, brutal pirate TV demonstrations, drunken parties, and thwarted love.. And that was my idyllic interlude.
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State Conspiracy
Title: State Conspiracy
Character: Commissaire Brindier
Released: June 15, 2012
Type: Movie
French territory is threatened by a terrorist organization just before the presidential election. If the government doesn't answer its demands, programmed bombs will explode gradually on the national railway network. Despite the operation deployed by the anti-terrorist unit, the Home Office has no other choice but to call Franck Barrot, police superintendent well-known for his controversial methods, to neutralize the armed group. His investigation will lead him to the very top level of the terrorist organization: the government itself.
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Operation Casablanca
Title: Operation Casablanca
Character: Hassan
Released: November 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi - a regular guy who happens to be an illegal Arab immigrant - sets out on the most dangerous day of his life. A satirical and thrilling comedy where a wrongly accused suspect gets mixed up in a worldwide terrorist plot.
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The Prey
Title: The Prey
Character: Lucciani
Released: April 12, 2011
Type: Movie
A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
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My Piece of the Pie
Title: My Piece of the Pie
Character: Ahmed
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: Movie
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...
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Nothing to Declare
Title: Nothing to Declare
Character: Lucas Pozzi
Released: December 20, 2010
Type: Movie
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
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The Names of Love
Title: The Names of Love
Character: Mohamed Benmahmoud, le père de Bahia
Released: November 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.
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What War May Bring
Title: What War May Bring
Character: L'accordéonniste
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: Movie
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
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Pas si simple
Title: Pas si simple
Character: Mostepha
Released: April 21, 2010
Type: Movie
Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vacation in Morocco, she finally chooses Samir.
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Divorces
Title: Divorces
Character: Marc
Released: October 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Valentine and Alex are married, both lawyers, specializing in family matters. In the exercise of their profession, they defend the divorce of the XXIst century: amicable, in the serenity and the respect of the other, preferably in alternating custody and in the blended family, far from the cased vases and the atrocious scenes of household of the previous generation. Until the day when, because of a banal adultery, their couple shatters. And the reality of the divorce catches up with them: no more fine words, just war.
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Moloch Tropical
Title: Moloch Tropical
Character: Jean de Dieu Théogène, the President
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: Movie
In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the president finds his country in turmoil. The whole nation is in the grips of a riot that has broken out overnight. But nothing should stop the president’s ceremony.
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So Woman!
Title: So Woman!
Character: Farid
Released: July 15, 2009
Type: Movie
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.
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J'ai pensé à vous tous les jours
Title: J'ai pensé à vous tous les jours
Character: Joseph Souhad
Released: December 27, 2008
Type: Movie
Cedric alias "The Quick" was abandoned at birth by his mother and grew up somehow in the homes of the DDASS. One day his teacher Bernard tells him he has a brother, Matthew, alias "Little M", of whom he knows nothing. Unlike Cedric, Mathieu was raised by a wealthy family in an upscale suburb. The meeting between the two brothers promises to be chaotic. Yet, however big their differences, Cedric and Mathieu have one thing in common: they have not known their mother. The two brothers therefore decide to find her. This is the beginning of a long and perilous journey of initiation in which they will get to know each other ...
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JCVD
Title: JCVD
Character: Man wearing Beret
Released: June 4, 2008
Type: Movie
Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
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Minor Revelations
Title: Minor Revelations
Released: April 9, 2008
Type: Movie
"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is able to recognise it -- that is the risk I take. I think that this is good enough reason to make a film that will make visible small yet revealing things in differeent ways. I believe in tropisms and that is what interests me in this film." -- Marie Vermillard [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
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Welcome to the Sticks
Title: Welcome to the Sticks
Character: Momo
Released: February 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
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Paris
Title: Paris
Character: Mourad
Released: February 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
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To Each His Own Cinema
Title: To Each His Own Cinema
Character: Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: Movie
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
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Crossed Tracks
Title: Crossed Tracks
Character: le commissaire
Released: June 27, 2007
Type: Movie
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Character: Joubert
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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That Day
Title: That Day
Character: Inspecteur Haddid
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Jacob Berger’s film shows a day in the life of a family. People meet and leave, and wonder, will they find themselves again? At daybreak, Serge believes he has committed a crime. Pietra realises that she has been betrayed around midday. At one o’clock 8-year-old Vlad feels lovesick for the first time. The day is spent observing, looking, avoiding and meeting each other. One day, three different perspectives: the same evening twilight, the same loneliness. And there is always the stranger who crosses their path. How will Serge, Pietra and Vlad find each other?
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The Nativity Story
Title: The Nativity Story
Character: Girl's Father
Released: November 30, 2006
Type: Movie
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
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Title: L'État de Grace
Character: Jean-Jacques Chrétien
Released: September 27, 2006
Type: TV
L'État de Grace was a French television show that featured France's first female president.
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A House of Your Dreams
Title: A House of Your Dreams
Character: Mouloud Mami
Released: June 7, 2006
Type: Movie
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
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Olé !
Title: Olé !
Character: Le chauffeur CL500
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of returning to sunny Andalusia.
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Vive la vie
Title: Vive la vie
Character: Rachid
Released: October 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A businessman gets depressed when his wife leaves him and he learns that his IQ is very low. A friend, a clown in hospitals, wants to cheer him up.
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Emmenez-moi
Title: Emmenez-moi
Character: Boris
Released: July 12, 2005
Type: Movie
A lifelong fan of Charles Aznavour, a drifting 50-year-old man one day sets out to meet his idol.
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The Demon Stirs
Title: The Demon Stirs
Character: Samir
Released: June 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find potential lovers.
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Russian Dolls
Title: Russian Dolls
Character: M. Boubaker
Released: June 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
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La vie de chantier
Title: La vie de chantier
Character: Pedro Pinto
Released: November 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Charles Boulin decides to sell his small apartment on Avenue Foch to purchase a little hotel in the western suburbs of Paris. But the hotel happens to be a decaying house in Argenteuil. He wanted to surprise his wife and daughter, but it soon turns into a nightmare when they learn they have move into this shack, during the work, along with unscrupulous workers ...
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L'incruste
Title: L'incruste
Character: Mickey
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A small crook manages to crash at a musician's apartment and turns his life upside down.
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Tar Angel
Title: Tar Angel
Character: Ahmed Kasmi
Released: October 8, 2003
Type: Movie
Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.
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Franck Dubosc - Les Pour Toi Public
Title: Franck Dubosc - Les Pour Toi Public
Character: Self
Released: April 29, 2003
Type: Movie
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Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
Title: Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
Character: Mouss
Released: March 5, 2003
Type: Movie
"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.
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The Legend of Princess Parva
Title: The Legend of Princess Parva
Character: Gangster (voice)
Released: February 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived the Crown Prince Shiva of the throne. The insidious Malaw had the prince locked up in a dungeon in the palace’s underground labyrinth, and he announced to the Kiam residents that he would kill Shiva if they only tried to rebel. Then the Old Sage Swami, aided by programmer Agni, came into contact with the Light of Crystal. That’s what he called a girl named Parva, who embodied radiant innocence and was born of the same astral combination as Prince Shiva. Only she and her love could save the prince and bring peace back to the island of Kiam.
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Concours de circonstance
Title: Concours de circonstance
Character: Le grand frère
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Short movie
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If I Were a Rich Man
Title: If I Were a Rich Man
Character: Monsieur Benhassine
Released: November 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
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Ma caméra et moi
Title: Ma caméra et moi
Character: Max
Released: July 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The second, he steals it from a Japanese tourist couple. For the third, he seduces the saleswoman who ends up agreeing to undress. Until one day, understanding that the blind are decidedly more gifted than the sighted, she decides to cheat on him ...
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The Spanish Apartment
Title: The Spanish Apartment
Character: Barman
Released: June 19, 2002
Type: Movie
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Title: Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Character: Tiler
Released: January 30, 2002
Type: Movie
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since all her architects are either busy otherwise or too conservative in style, this ambivalent honor falls to Edifis. He is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fate is to be eaten by crocodiles. Edifis calls upon an old friend to help him out: The fabulous Druid Getafix from Gaul, who brews a fantastic potion that gives supernatural strength. In order to help and protect the old Druid, Asterix and Obelix accompany him on his journey to Egypt. When Julius Caesar gets wind of the project succeeding, he has the building site attacked by his troops in order to win the bet and not lose face. But just like the local pirates, he hasn't counted on Asterix and Obelix.
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Teacher in a Bikini
Title: Teacher in a Bikini
Character: Alain, l'employé municipal
Released: January 2, 2002
Type: Movie
Old buddies Eric, Jean and Karim have never really grown up. Spending their listless days and nights in the same Lyon suburb where they were raised, the men are always looking for distractions. So when Jean steals a television camera one afternoon, the trio decide to head into the city in the hopes of pawning it. But their funny idea of an adventure turns out to be a ticket into trouble.
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La vie en gros
Title: La vie en gros
Character: Le professeur de français
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Inch'Allah dimanche
Title: Inch'Allah dimanche
Character: Ahmed
Released: December 5, 2001
Type: Movie
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
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J'ai tué Clémence Acéra
Title: J'ai tué Clémence Acéra
Released: April 11, 2001
Type: Movie
A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.
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Fortune Tellers and Misfortune
Title: Fortune Tellers and Misfortune
Character: Roland
Released: April 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Chantel is happy: her son's away at school playing soccer, she and her husband get along, her neighbor Agnès is her best friend, and her job at a government office is easy. When her husband is laid off and she wonders for how long, her office pal Jackie recommends Alban, a psychic (and compulsive gambler), who promptly tells Chantel of a curse on her that will take three sessions (and 10,000 FF) to dispel. Through happenstance, she meets Alban's half-brother; thinking she is following the psychic predictions, she tries to start an affair with him. She also undergoes Alban's exorcism, and soon, terrible things indeed start to happen. Is there any way out of her misery?
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Bread
Title: Bread
Released: April 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a dramatic discovery.
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Mademoiselle
Title: Mademoiselle
Character: Karim Coutard
Released: March 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
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Ligne 208
Title: Ligne 208
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Bruno, a bus driver, lives in a problem estate. One day, a group of young people stab him. Since this moment, Bruno spends his time in a meeting point of extreme right-wing people. His only goal is to find the youngs who did that to him, even if he looses everything.
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Deuxième quinzaine de juillet
Title: Deuxième quinzaine de juillet
Released: July 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Felix lives with Monique, an authoritarian woman. He decides his wife to exchange their Blois pavilion for what seems to be paradise: a villa in the south of the Drome. Unfortunately the house stands in the middle of a campsite.
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Banqueroute
Title: Banqueroute
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Nicolas Lanson, a young stockbroker, lives a fast life of money and luxury until the day his high-risk initiatives cause the fall of the bank. He flees with a price on his head. On the run, Nicolas meets Charlotte, pregnant for a man who doesn't want her. Although Nicolas isn't her type, Charlotte seduces him once she discovers his identity. Little does Nicolas know, Charlotte is not leading them to see her brother, but an older lover who just happens to be a cop.
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The Apple, the Fig and the Almond
Title: The Apple, the Fig and the Almond
Character: The man
Released: July 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A man and a woman whose first names will never be known and who should never meet. He is an immigrant, worker of the vine, she is a fleeing bourgeois who thinks she has committed an irreparable mistake.
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Génération cutter
Title: Génération cutter
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Short movie
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Peut-être
Title: Peut-être
Character: Kader
Released: November 10, 1999
Type: Movie
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.
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Mes amis
Title: Mes amis
Character: Areski
Released: June 2, 1999
Type: Movie
In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of the day is not going to go as planned at all.
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Influence Peddling
Title: Influence Peddling
Character: Gilles
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts. All these complications turn a simple transfer into a hellish adventure.
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Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
Title: Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
Character: Le coiffeur
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period
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Lila Lili
Title: Lila Lili
Character: Alain
Released: January 6, 1999
Type: Movie
Micheline, who is pregnant, lives in a home for women from which she tries to observe the world with calm and serenity. Among other women of the home who are also pregnant the frequently asked question is whether they will keep their baby or not.
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Let There Be Light!
Title: Let There Be Light!
Character: Dieu l'éboueur
Released: July 8, 1998
Type: Movie
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
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Serial Lover
Title: Serial Lover
Character: Prince Hakim
Released: April 22, 1998
Type: Movie
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
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Le Jour de Noël
Title: Le Jour de Noël
Released: March 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "jazz" portrait.
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Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve
Title: Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve
Character: Farid
Released: December 17, 1997
Type: Movie
24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence
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Gentlemen Children
Title: Gentlemen Children
Character: Nourdine / Ismaël
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into adults. The next morning, the three twelve-year-old boys realize to their amazement that...they HAVE BEEN transformed into adults! As for they parents they have become...KIDS! It is the beginning of a series of mishaps for Joseph, a Jew, Igor, a catholic and Nourdine, an Arab...
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The Silence of Rak
Title: The Silence of Rak
Character: Customer
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.
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Mauvais Genre
Title: Mauvais Genre
Character: Momo
Released: May 27, 1997
Type: Movie
The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-signings and talk-shows. When beautiful hat designer Camille buys the book, Martial follows her and spies on her as she reads his book and removes her clothing. It's the beginning of his obsession and also an inspiration. After Martial's live-in girlfriend Lucie establishes contact with Camille for real, Martial is able to type out another sexy manuscript.
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Hikers
Title: Hikers
Character: L'animateur
Released: March 12, 1997
Type: Movie
A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives while becoming lost and contending with such obstacles as bad weather and aching bodies. Both of the female hikers are seeking love, though one of them is involved with their married guide and tries to push him into getting a divorce. The other, a former actress, simply wants the perfect mate. Neither of the two male hikers, one who is involved with an Australian and the other is in love with making money, qualify for her affections.
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Didier
Title: Didier
Character: Camel Mimouni
Released: January 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...
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I Am Your Punishment
Title: I Am Your Punishment
Character: Pursuer #2
Released: October 10, 1996
Type: Movie
An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.
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Chameleon
Title: Chameleon
Character: Gas station attendant
Released: October 9, 1996
Type: Movie
After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she tells her sad story to hard-drinking Moskowitz, a middle-aged cop who secretly desires her. His unrequited love leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, Lea continues living with Francis, but also shacks up with Luc while trying to avoid the jealous cop.
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Family Resemblances
Title: Family Resemblances
Character: Un consommateur
Released: September 7, 1996
Type: Movie
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
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The Rock of Acapulco
Title: The Rock of Acapulco
Character: Ahmed
Released: April 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati's and lives in a second rate hotel under the careful eye of Ahmed, the night watchman. One day, she meets Gérald, her brother's former boyfriend, who persuades her to move into his apartment. He soon takes control over Sandrine's life, organizing erotic rendezvous for her, taking her to her clients and waiting for her until she is through with her task.
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When the Cat's Away
Title: When the Cat's Away
Character: Djamel
Released: April 3, 1996
Type: Movie
When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.
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L'Échappée belle
Title: L'Échappée belle
Character: l'avocat
Released: March 27, 1996
Type: Movie
An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's true that Manu Barnes is free-spirited and for much of his twelve year marriage to Mathilde that he has been too centered on his career, but he does love his kids and believes he should see them more often than one weekend a month. The judge called him irresponsible and he decides to disprove her words by kidnapping Chloe, the judge's strong-willed adolescent daughter. He takes the girl to a remote, snow-bound mountain cabin. Unfortunately, she thinks Manu is sexually attracted to her. A disaster nearly occurs there, but Chloe manages to get back to Paris. Though he knows a private detective is trailing him, the determined Manu decides to abduct his kids and take them out of the country.
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The Voyage of Penelope
Title: The Voyage of Penelope
Character: le vendeur de voiture
Released: March 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Maxime and Paulo are two young men in their very early twenties. Maxime is spending his summer holidays with his parents in a camping resort, which he hates, and Paulo is working in the nearest cafeteria. They hope to win a cruise to Bora-Bora by collecting capsules from pop-soda bottles. They are missing only one capsule, which is unfortunately found by Penelope, who works in the local supermarket. Unfortunately, because Penelope is not very attractive. The two boys make Penelope believe that Paulo is going to go on the cruise with her, but Maxime decides to ride along with them, in Penelope's old car, to Marseille, where the ship is leaving from. Actually the two boys plan to steal Penelope's capsule, get rid of her, and go on the cruise together. But, on their way to Marseille, they are going to meet a couple of very strange elderly people, Hermine and Gaspard.
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René Vautier, l'indomptable
Title: René Vautier, l'indomptable
Character: himself
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Les Apprentis
Title: Les Apprentis
Character: Serveur Café
Released: December 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Women and a robbery preoccupy a nervous writer and his loafer roommate.
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La Haine
Title: La Haine
Character: Paris Plainclothes Police Officer #1
Released: May 31, 1995
Type: Movie
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
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Good Old Daze
Title: Good Old Daze
Character: Un hippie
Released: January 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies. Part of ARTE's series "The high school years".
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Daisy and Mona
Title: Daisy and Mona
Released: November 12, 1994
Type: Movie
The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this gritty, but upbeat French drama. Daisy, a typical young woman of the X-generation, seems to have no ambition in her life; she lives for the moment and the moment is often self-destructive. Abused as a child, she affects toughness and bravado to disguise her inner fears. Mona, Daisy's seven-year old daughter, is the result of the sexual abuse Daisy suffered while she was a child. Mona was raised by her father, but after he went to prison and his girlfriend rejected her, Mona must return to her mother. The reunion is not joyful and the two must lower plenty of mutual barriers if they are to bond. When Mona's lover Sami is arrested for a shooting, Daisy and Mona go on the lam. To survive they become con-artists and petty thieves. Just as things start to improve, finds out that her new boss has been having her deliver kiddie-porn.
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Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
Title: Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
Character: Man in Front of Vidal's Hospital
Released: November 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentionally causes an accident that leads her to the emergency ward of a psychiatric hospital. During her brief stay, she unexpectedly sparks into life. She takes an interest in two young patients, Pierre and Anne, convinced that she is doing the right thing in supervising their love life...
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A Soul Split in Two
Title: A Soul Split in Two
Character: Abid
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?
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Little Nothings
Title: Little Nothings
Character: Aziz
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.
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Hanna K.
Title: Hanna K.
Character: Villiage Sergeant
Released: September 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
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Title: Venus and Apollo
Character: Daniel Varela - dit Dan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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